318 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker's 



secondaries between veins 2 and 3, with a faint trace of yellow above 

 it. In some very fresh specimens from certain localities the colour 

 approaches very closely to pleheia ; this may, hovvever, be only 

 due to the very fresh condition of the specimens. Underside, both 

 mngs bro%vn or brownish grey with the usual spots, whose white 

 edging is decidedly narrower than in pleheia ; the spots of the post- 

 median series are definitely encircled spots adjacent together, but not 

 confluent. Primaries with the usual spot closing the cell; the 

 postmedian series consisting of six spots, the upper four almost in 

 a line, the fifth shifted somewhat inwards, and the sixth sometimes 

 double, vertical below the outer edge of the fifth ; a marginal row of 

 internervular dashes, preceded by a row of six sublunular marks 

 edged on each side with white. Secondaries with a black basal 

 spot on the inner margin, four subbasal ones below each other, the 

 central two adjacent, and another black spot fm-ther out below the 

 costal vein; the postmedian series composed of six spots, the first 

 oval, the second to the fourth shifted slightly outv/ards, all being 

 in line and inclined inwards, the fifth shifted inwards, sixth slightly 

 outwards ; a marginal row of semilunular marks preceded by a rov/ 

 of sublunular broadish dashes edged on each side with white; a 

 black marginal spot between veins 2 and 3, with blue metallic scales 

 and broad orange internal edging. No tails. 



(^. Both wings, upperside, brownish mth the whole of the area 

 up to the subterminal brov/n stripe and up to the costal vein inclined 

 to whitish suffused entirely with sublustrous violet blue, the blue 

 scaling at the base being much denser and so doing away with the 

 whitish appearance. Primaries with a large and prominent sj)ot 

 closing the cell, a broad brown subterminal stripe separated from the 

 terminal broad stripe by internervular pale spots. Secondaries 

 with the blue suffusion up to vein 7 instead of the costal as in the 

 primaries ; the subterminal stripe is lunular and the terminal brown- 

 spotted band is somewhat indefinitely edged with whitish. 



Expanse, (3* 44 ; ? 46-52 mm. 



Type lost, one female in the Banks collection, British 

 Museum, but not referred to by Fabricius. 



Hab. Sierra Leone ; Lagos ; Angola, Coast of 

 Guinea ; Entebbe {F. J. Jackson) ; V/est Uganda 

 (Neave); Nairobi; Victoria Nyanza (Oxford Mus.); 

 N.E. Rhodesia {A. A. Langshaiv), Kiboriani, Kangwa 

 KiBARA {Trimen). 



There has been so much confusion with tiiis species that 

 it has been necessary to go back over all the old literature 

 traceable. 



